Glenn Danzig

My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'

Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.

Two hours onstage... that's the best part because it makes it all worth it.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

I hate iPods.

I like albums. I like holding them, seeing what they're all about, you know? I like reading liner notes. Even if it's a CD, you're getting kind of an idea of what the band is coming from. Or what they want you to think they're coming from. I like that.

I don't even listen to music on the road, and if I did, it would be classical or whatever, something to chill me out.

CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

I'm lucky that I can stay busy and people are interested in what I do. I have fantastic people that are into whatever I do, which is great. I try to keep myself happy and them happy.

It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.

I've always tried to expand what heavy or loud music was and where it can go and what it can do.

It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is part of great rock music or great literature or any great creative stuff.

The most rebelliousness I see now is coming out of WikiLeaks and D.C. Leaks and BlackListed News.

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

For me, it shouldn't just be a live show: it should be an experience. It should be some kind of crazy, tribal, exhausting experience.

Back in the days, we had to work with a shoestring budget. We had a movie screen, and we'd show movie trailers on them, and then we'd rip through it and started playing. Now we have a little money to play with to do a cool stage set.

It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.

It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'

David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.

If you're a music fan, you think these artists will be here forever, but you should enjoy them while they're here, because you never know what will happen.

I'm a workaholic, and so I've always got to be doing stuff.

I try to work out, but a lot of hotels don't have gyms anymore, so I always try to find a local gym where there's not a ton of 'roid-heads, 'cause I can't stand them. It's tough.

If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.

I don't know that I'm not normal, because usually, when I tell people the things I do, either their jaw drops or they look at me shocked, but I'm sure I do normal things - everyone eats, that kind of stuff.

It really annoys me when the light turns green, and you're behind somebody, and they're just sitting there looking at the light for about 15, 20 seconds.

It's annoying when someone's in front of you driving ten miles an hour, and you're like, 'Okay, today,' and someone else is on the side of you, so you can't pass them, and when you finally do pass them and they are texting, the laser cannons just come out and disintegrate that car.

As a little kid watching horror movies, if you only got to see the monster for the last two minutes of the movie, I thought that movie pretty much sucked.

There's all kinds of schisms in Satanism, but the thing I like about it is the quest for knowledge.

I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

On Sirius, I can find anything I want. They have about four or five different metal channels, rock channels; there's a whole Elvis channel.

Anyone who knows me, and most of my fans, know that I have a sense of humor.

When I started Samhain, I remember a producer telling me that I had a real band now.

Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.

I know kids like Beavis and Butt-head.

No trick or treaters came to my house for Halloween. For some reason, people around here are scared of me.

Some of the best sing-along stuff you'll ever hear is Gary Glitter.

The choruses are important for me. I want to say something, and sing-along is great.

I don't like a lot of drama on the road - I don't like prima donnas.

The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.

Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.

I love the energy, and I just love watching people lose their minds and be happy and exhilarated. There is nothing like it.

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

While I am here, I want to maximize my time on this planet, you know.

If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.

Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books... you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.

When your car rattles when you drive, you know you are playing cool music.